plumaço

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin plūmācium (“feather pillow”).[1][2] Doublet of chumaço. By surface analysis, pluma +‎ -aço.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -asu
  • Hyphenation: plu‧ma‧ço

Noun

plumaço m (plural plumaços)

  1. panache, hackle used in horses
  2. (archaic) feather pillow

References

  1. ^ “plumaço”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
  2. ^ “plumaço”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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